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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photoNhat V. Meyer | San Jose (Calif.) Mercury NewsEagles quarterback Nick Foles throws a touchdown pass in the first quarter. Foles, who sat out last week because of a concussion, completed 22 of 28 passes for 406 yards.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Nick Foles didn’t know he had made history until after he came out of the
game. That must have been because he was too busy shredding the Oakland Raiders’ defense to keep up
with his impressive statistics.

Foles tied an NFL record with seven touchdown passes and threw for 406 yards to revitalize
Philadelphia’s struggling offense in the Eagles’ 49-20 victory over the Raiders yesterday.

“A couple people came up to me and said that I tied the record with seven touchdowns,” Foles
said. “It’s a great honor. Hats off to our guys for doing a great job.”

The backup quarterback connected three times with Riley Cooper to become the seventh passer with
seven TD tosses in a game. Peyton Manning did it for Denver on opening night this season against
Baltimore.

Foles also threw scoring passes to Brent Celek, Zach Ertz, LeSean McCoy and DeSean Jackson, and
the Eagles (4-5) looked nothing like the offense that failed to score a touchdown in each of the
past two weeks.

“Every defense the past couple of weeks has been stopping us,” McCoy said. “So today we were
kind of feeling bottled up and we released everything.”

The Raiders (3-5) had appeared much improved on defense in recent weeks but were flummoxed by
coach Chip Kelly’s spread offense that stalled recently.

Foles completed 22 of 28 passes as he frequently exploited mismatches and blown coverages,
starting with a 42-yard quick pass to Cooper on the opening drive when the Raiders had two
defenders trying to cover three receivers.

McCoy took a short pass and ran 25 yards untouched for his score in the third quarter, and
Jackson raced past Mike Jenkins on his 46-yard touchdown later in the third.

Foles tied the record with a 5-yard pass to Cooper with 4:28 remaining in the third quarter,
matching the mark also held by Sid Luckman (1943), Adrian Burk (1954), George Blanda (1961), Y.A.
Tittle (1962) and Joe Kapp (1969).

With more than a quarter to go to break the record, Foles was unable to get the Eagles back into
the end zone on the next two drives before being replaced by Matt Barkley.

“I know what the record is,” Kelly said. “But this isn’t about records, it’s about going out and
getting a win. If I put Nick out there to try to get a record and he gets hurt, that’s being silly.
Records are meant to broken when they’re supposed to be broken.”

That was about all Foles couldn’t do in his first game since being limited to 80 yards on 29
passes before leaving because of a concussion two weeks ago against Dallas.

Foles got another shot this week only because regular starter Michael Vick reinjured his
hamstring in a loss to the New York Giants last week. It will be tough to bench Foles, who has 13
scoring passes and no interceptions this season.

“Everybody started acting like his career was over after that Dallas game, but they forgot that
he had played some good football before that,” center Jason Kelce said. “A lot of that criticism
will probably be halted for at least one week.”

Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor threw for 288 yards and ran for 94 more, but also had two
interceptions and took two sacks in a shaky performance. The former Ohio State player left the game
in the fourth quarter because of a knee injury that he does not believe is serious.

“It’s embarrassing,” Pryor said. “I hate losing. ... We have to do something about it instead of
tanking it.”